How to make a mutli-homed host use one IP for a NAT'ed host

[Greg Cope]

> Sorry, my mistake.  It was late at night after a long day.  :(

Many Thanks Grant.

No need to appologies - and your up already!

So I swapped to eth1 - and it would appear that packets are getting
marked as if I add in the ip route add command I can no longer connect
to an SMTP server from the mailserver (using telnet HOST 25)

So the last few hurdles...

I need to use the same router - an ADSL thing as everything else, I
just want the packets to be sent from a different $MAIL_INET_ALIAS IP
(as opposed to the usual INET_IP

$ ip rule add fwmark $SMTP_MARK table $IPROUTE2_SMTP_TABLE

Works fine and makes sense.

However I think these are the sticking points:

ip route add table $IPROUTE2_SMTP_TABLE dev $INET_IFACE src $MAIL_INET_ALIAS
ip route add table $IPROUTE2_SMTP_TABLE default via $INET_IP

I get 

$ ip route add table smtp.out dev eth0 src 217.154.55.250
$ ip route add table smtp.out default via 217.154.55.241
RTNETLINK answers: File exists


.241 is my internet gateway router, not the default external IP of my
firewall which is eth0=217.154.55.249. eth0:1=217.154.55.250 which is
the $MAIL_INET_ALIAS

Combinations of either of the above mean the mail server cannot
connect to an exteriror mail server.

Hum....

Greg